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lain at someone's door

lain at someone's door is the past participle of lie at someone's door.

Meaning of lie at someone's door

Verb

lie at someone's door (third-person singular simple present lies at someone's door, present participle lying at someone's door, simple past lay at someone's door, past participle lain at someone's door)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be the fault or responsibility of someone.
    • Appointed foreign minister in 2004, he has since then through successive US administrations developed a Putinesque revulsion for all western ideas, if not all western consumer durables. At one point, he said all the ills of the 20th century colonialism, two world wars and the cold war lay at the...2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian

Questions about lain at someone's door

What is lain at someone's door the past participle of?
Lain at someone's door is the past participle of lie at someone's door.

Words near lain at someone's door in the dictionary

  1. lain
  2. lain above
  3. lain ahead
  4. lain along
  5. lain around
  6. lain at someone's door
  7. lain at someone's heart
  8. lain back
  9. lain back and thought of England
  10. lain before
  11. lain behind

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